Correction to: Bone Marrow Transplantation (2014) 49, 1475–1480; doi:10.1038/bmt.2014.197; published online 15 September 2014

Since the publication of this article, it has been noted the name of J El-Cheikh was incorrect. This has now been rectified and the corrected article together with this corrigendum appears in this issue.

The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.